Following on from yesterdays I got in the zone and made more little notecards from old dsp …
Some I added die cut flowers which I cut from scraps of cardstock and then added the sentiment…
Others I added the little stamped image I coloured with ink and water…
I also added a little stamping to the panel of grid dsp on these.
I kept going just using up the dsp I couldn’t bear to throw out but knew I needed to not hoard any longer!
This final one for today was simple.
Throughout these projects I’ve been refusing to use anything but scraps and managed to almost clear out the little pouch of small scraps to make them. impressed with myself!
Yesterday I shared the masterboard I made and three cards I made from it. Today I have the final piece and what I ended up doing with it.
I turned it into a very large card which I sent to my auntie and uncle for this year.
I teamed the panel of the masterboard with a piece of paper I had gone to town on with stamping using the Christmas Season stamps and some random text/script stamps and of course lots of splatters. I had also added some vintage photo ink to it too which meant it felt in keeping with the masterboard panel.
I added these together and onto a piece of cream cardstock. I added some brads to also keep them together.
Then I decided to add one of the spellbinders stitched trees as the main focal point. This time it was a green tree that I inked a lot with darker inks to make it in keeping with the colours already used. Then I used the ivory thread to add the decoration.
I kept the sentiment very simple with the cream panel that I inked with green and brown lightly to just distress it and help it look less bright against the backgrounds.
Love how this came together to create a big card. I also added a strip of the stamped paper on the inside of the card as it was leftover from the original piece.
I really enjoyed the masterboard I made using collaged patterned paper bits and ink and stencilling and stamping … so I made another one!
This was it mid way through. Again used dsp but this time a mix of sets with browns and greens. Added distress ink on top and then stamped a few words. Next I added the stencilled snowflakes and then started with splatter in both the white and then a gold shimmer watercolour and a green shimmer watercolour. Perfect to tie in the different colours in the background.
Next I took three distress oxides and three snowflake stamps and added those before chopping apart the panels into card topper sizes. I then sewed around the edge of the toppers with wonky lines but didn’t do the whole sewing over the top type thing this time.
I decided to separate one of the toppers out as I wanted to do something different with that which I will share on another day. The other three I decided to keep similar as landscape cards.
I added some white die cut snowflakes which I positioned so they would poke out of the edge of the focal image I had planned.
The focal image I white embossed onto Kraft cardstock and then used the shimmer watercolours to add the colour. I should have stamped with a pale colour then painted and then embossed to make this easier but never mind … it still worked just meant I kept having to wipe off the embossed line art.
Once they were dry I then fussy cut them out and glued them flat to the card.
Next I embossed the sentiment onto the Kraft and then added a white mount to each of the strips.
Obviously these are all very similar but clearly unique as the backgrounds are randomly put together and the image slightly differently placed.
Love how they look and it was great fun putting together another masterboard.
I’ve still got that one piece leftover … but that I used differently and so look out for that on the blog tomorrow.
So a few weeks ago I had lots of fun watching the Tim Holtz Holiday Hoopla videos on YouTube and it got me feeling vintage and mixed media! This is what I then created whilst watching the video!
I ended up with four cards but cut from the one masterboard I made. Here are the progress shots …
I started by taking pieces of the Tidings and Trimmings papers and cutting them into random rectangles and shapes and just gluing them down with a little bit of glue stick … I wasn’t concerned about gluing them flat as I knew I wanted to sew over them.
I then did lots and lots of sewing. Sometimes I followed the shapes of the paper and sometimes just sewed straight across sections. I didn’t really think much about choice of design but occasionally changed the setting to zig zag rather than straight stitching.
Next I added three different colours of distress ink (all browns) by swiping the ink pads across the masterboard so it was random but caught all the texture in particular. I then used a blending brush to wipe across it all to soften some of the lines.
I then took a stencil and using white gesso added the stencilling randomly all over the page. This unified the page giving it some interest but consistency.
Next up I added word stamping using archival ink to add something more suited to Christmas cards.
Next I took three different acrylic paints and heavily splattered all over the whole sheet. One of these was a gold shimmer paint so it is super sparkly when you see it in the light…
I then chopped the panel into four pieces and trimmed them down slightly so they were 14.4cm x 10cm so they would fit on a standard card blank with a border.
I then used both the Vintage photo distress ink and some Early Espresso to ink the edge to frame each panel. I decided at this point that two would work well as portrait cards and two as landscape.
Next I took the same Kraft cardstock and die cut the spellbinders stitched die tree from the October kit and die cut that four times (I actually did it six times in total but two just were to mount one of these onto so not pictured)… and then added ink to them using both the vintage photo and early espresso to give them some depth and then splattered the shimmer gold paint on them too … in my defence I have been watching a lot of Prairie Paper and Ink too and splatter is very present for her cards too!
Then I took three of the trees and did sewing! So fun to do this whilst still watching Tim doing his thing on YouTube and inspiring me with all his amazing ideas!
I did sewing on three and the final tree I left it without the sewing and stacked it three times to make it a chunky embellishment. I did add thread though just as a nest beneath the tree.
I chose to add some white panels to three cards … two I pierced manually with the piercing tool and template and the other is a die cut shape.
Then I stamped cut and layered the sentiments to finish off.
Clearly these are very different Christmas cards and I know the people who will appreciate them most are my more crafty friends who will definitely love the artsy mixed media nature of the cards … I absolutely loved the couple of hours I spent making these and think I need to do more things like this routinely as it gets me out of the comfort zone especially when dealing with patterned paper!
Also those trees are just amazing! And such fun to stitch! And I love all the sparkle!
A while ago I made a masterboard inspired by a Jennifer McGuire video … well I set aside the last 2 panels and have now finished off using them to create these two cards. Actually managed to get to craft this weekend so hoping to get back to daily posting!
I kept them both pretty simple and allowed the backgrounds to show off by just adding a stamped image, a sentiment and little embellishment.
The green I added to some white cardstock and then added the Christmas Flower stamp from Altenew which I had stamped on a scrap of cardstock which I had wiped the brayer off when creating these backgrounds. This just added some subtle colour on this.
I did add the green ribbon and then the sentiment from the same Altenew set.
The red card I embossed the image in white onto the same wipe off piece of cardstock.
I created another sentiment stamping onto white and then layered on a piece of inked cardstock scrap to coordinate. I added the sparkly rose gold die cut circles as embellishments.
So that’s this piece of Masterboard finished off and nine cards in total made from the two pieces of A4 I created. Love these. Thanks for Jennifer for inspiring me to just have fun and get inky. I also love the mica spray idea to make the whole piece super sparkly!
A few months ago I made two masterboard backgrounds as I was inspired by a Jennifer McGuire video to just play with the stash I have got and I then made some cards … a total of six so far but will share them over a few blogs to spread them out.
Let’s start with the how… I tried to remember to take in progress pictures.
I started by creating the first inky layer with the brayer just like Jennifer. She then did a spray of the distress mica sprays but I don’t have any so I made my own using Dylusions and some perfect pearls. I used yellow for the red coloured one and then added some blue to turn it green for the blue one.
You wouldn’t believe how sparkly this makes them … they look gorgeous but it never comes out in photographs so you will have to take my word for it … super ✨ soarkly!
I did the same as Jennifer did and cut the panels up first and then taped them together. Next I added stamping, stencilling and had lots and lots of fun!
I started by die cutting the panels with the pierced background die from waffle flower and then cut them into angled panels.
I decided to keep it simple for the first two…
I stamped and embossed the deer image and stacked up the cardstock so it was nice and thick and fussy cut it out.
I stamped and embossed the sentiment and then added some gems.
The pierced die cut adds some extra subtle elements.
For this one I blended ink onto some scrap and then embossed the Darcy holly leaves in silver to coordinate with the embossing in the background.
I then added sequins to embellish and the embossed sentiment layered up on the green leftover panel.
Hello … I stamped four cards in total with the Hello Winter large sentiment stamp however I only finished the first two in one session… the other two I finished off a few hours later but used a different set of stamps .. this time the Indigo Blu stamps were pulled out to play with.
I finished each card slightly differently.
One with more blending and some embossed snowflakes on top.
The other I roughed up the edges, inked it and then debossed and used my pen to add some lines around the outside.
I splattered both with ink and shimmer ink to add a little something sparkly.
Love both of these … think I prefer the none ink blended one more … what do you think?
Final piece of the brusho masterboard I made finished into a card for todays Christmas in July post.
This time I chose the starry sky to be the main colour with both the sentiment embossed on it and the card blank too.
I also added the white star die cuts from the Tidings and Trimmings set.
Added some more of the iridescent snowflake embellishments too. Not sure what I will do when I run out of these – they are so pretty!
Hope you’ve liked how I used this masterboard. It was so fun to play with the brusho background and the grunge type stamps to create something really interesting to play with.
Remember the masterboard I made a few weekends ago …
… well I played with another piece and made another card for my Christmas in July challenge.
I decided to take the bigger of the two pieces left and it pretty much filled the front of a C6 card with enough room for a mat. I did a mat using the soft sea foam and then made the card blank from starry sky, remembering of course to add an insert of white so there is something easy to write on.
I then added a die cut wonky circle and a white tree die cut that I stacked up a few times to give dimension. I also added wink of Stella on the top to give it sparkle.
I then chose a Tim holtz sticker sentiment and some enamel accent hearts for the embellishments.
I might get a chance to finish the other piece off too before the end of the month as I’ve already started on it … but this is todays contribution!
Final piece of that painty background I made back in May and finally got round to using the last bit of it for this card. This time it was only a small panel not a bigger one but I think it worked well against the embossed coloured cardstock with the white die cut.
I added some sheer ribbon for texture against the embossed panel and then raised the background piece up on some foam so it is quite dimensional. Then I stacked three die cuts together and this created a nice focal element. I added the sentiment and then the sequins to finish but I have to say it was a simple card to pull together as all the work of creating the background had been done in advance.
Oh just realised I also did the white posca pen outlines too which worked with bringing the white mat layer and the white tree together.
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